Some Spoonflower Weekly Contest Results

So I didn't think there was a way for me to find out how I went in the Spoonflower weekly contests, unless I came in the top 10. But I've since found that information in the blog posts announcing the winners! So exciting! I didn't totally suck! (I love not totally sucking).

So first up back in August was Pencil Pals.

 

Ranked 51 out of 171 with 165 votes (the winner got 639)

Then we rush straight to the Christmas designs with Secret Present Gift Tags.

Ranked 71 out of 152 with 77 votes (the winner got 468)

Most recently (also for Christmas) was Gingerbread Gentlemen.

199th out of 207 with 44 votes (the winner got 281).

I seem to be getting worse... although the various statistical analyses that suggest themselves to me are just too much effort!

Still, realising that people who don't know me must have actually voted for my designs is quite exciting. I think I might keep an eye on the upcoming contests and try again.

Thanks to all my friends who voted and helped me with ideas and titles.

In other exciting news, someone has bought a fat quarter of pencils pals! My first fabric sale (not including my dad). Awesome.

Pencil Pals Wall Decal

First secret! You didn't have to wait long. Once Spoonflower announced wallpaper and decals, I was pretty excited! I thought that my pencils could be really cute on a classroom wall. So I ordered one. Picked it up yesterday with the others, cleaned a section of wall first thing this morning and here it is!

As you can see, it's hard to find wall space in my classroom. My lovely year 7s commented right away and recognised it as being from Donald in Mathmagic Land. They also said that the pencil was kind of in the shape of a 7! Cute. This lovely pencil decal is also for sale in my Spoonflower shop.

School Fabrics

Spoonflower is so awesome. I have a new addiction. It is so immensely weird and cool and satisfying to see something you imagined as a genuine real life fabric.

I picked up my samples from the post office today. I'd ordered the Pencil Pals before, my Donald-in-Mathmagic-Land-inspired entry into the "School Supplies" contest, but it failed to arrive. The envelope arrived, slit open at the end with no swatch inside. I told the lovely Spoonflower people and they gave me credit for it, which was super nice. I was happy to finally see it!

One thing I'm finding it hard to get the hang of is size. I don't know how big I want my design to print. This one I did in two sizes to find out. This one might be a more useful size.

Plus my plane shapes fabric swatch came too. There's actually another column of shapes that don't fit onto the swatch - the trapezium, parallelogram and ellipse. Sometimes you just can't stop the maths stuff from being in your brain.

Also two things which I won't show you yet. One will have to wait until I get it installed and one until after the present is given. Yay! Secrets!

These 3 designs are now FOR SALE at Spoonflower. I have a "Shop" now, apparently. You should check it out, it is to be found here. I'd better get it a banner because right now it has my name hovering in a big white box!